Filtering

[lihp]

I was think about this yesterday.

The term "filtering" is massively inaccurate and realising this it has started to drive me insane when I see it used in the now incorrect context.

I assume the term filtering comes from a filter, and bikes passing through gaps in traffic like going through a filter.

But, that would mean the motorcycle is NOT filtering, but is being filtered. So when we go "filtering", we're actually being "filtered" by the traffic.

Now, I can't stop thinking about this constant misuse of the term.

It upsets me
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Just put it down to one of the many nuances of the English language.
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[pig hog]

Here's one definition from the free dictionary:

10. to pass or slip through slowly, as through an obstruction or a filter; penetrate.


And here is an Oxford dictionary definition:

2.
move slowly in a specified direction.
"the players filtered out on to the pitch"
synonyms: seep, percolate, leak, trickle, ooze, dribble, bleed, flow; More


Seems reasonable to me...
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[lihp]

[Mudshark]

Filter, v.

a. trans. To pass (a liquid) through a filter, or some porous medium, for the purpose of removing solid particles or impurities.


filtering, n.

The action of the verb filter


so you are passing though the filter substrate, so you are NOT being filtered, but you are filtering

easy eh?
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[lihp]

[pig hog]

Going by the first definition I found, we should change the term to 'penetrating'. I think it's much less ambiguous and will catch on quickly.
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[RhynoCZ]

I've seen various filtering videos from the UK and I still can not believe the mortality rates are that low. Well, yes the camera angle might made those videos look a bit more dangerous than they were but still, not safe stuff. When I filter, the traffic is standing and I slowly pass them around. The moment the traffic starts to move I stop and wait till the car ahead of me starts to move and then join the ''traffic stream''.

Once I tried to do the UK way, well I nearly had a brown code, bus started to move and made the gap so close I nearly scratched its side. So, I am cured now and I'm not gonna do that ever again.
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[lozzypop1]

But the motorcycle hasn't been filtered. The traffic has.
the car's have technically been filtered allowing the motorcycles to pass through the obstruction or "filter"
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[lihp]

[lozzypop1]

Yet one stands there and waits whilst the coffee is filtering.
Even though what we're actually waiting for is coffee flavoured water.
How often do you say "doing filtering"?
The filter does the filtering but the coffee IS filtering.
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[malteser273]

what surprises me the most is that i just spent my time reading all these posts about the term filtering!!

How long before this post is filtered into BCF history?
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[deadwolf]

When a red traffic light is involved it becomes osmosis.

Bikes filter until they reach the front of the queue where they form a big blob of bikes, much like molecules migrating through a partially permeable membrane to an area with a higher concentration.

Dangerous balls-out hooningly fast filtering should be referred to as a ''trench run'' ala Star Wars.
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[Teflon-Mike]

Why do they call moving stair-cases that go down 'escalators', surely a down escalator ought be a "decentalator"?

De-Oderant.. surey should be called Re-Oderant.. I mean, it usually niffs as much as what was there to begin with!

And what about Rhubarb?

Which brings us to the coffee conundrum, which is already confuddled, 'cos you put 'coffee' in the machine, and get coffee out, but what you called coffee, when you put it 'in' is most certainly not the same 'coffee' as you take out to drink...

BUT.... if I stuck coffee in the percolator (Another conundrum perhaps) and added water... whilst waiting, you might ask "Is the coffee filtered yet"... to which I might reply "No its still filtering"..

Of course the coffee I put in the percolator isn't filtering, nor being filtered.. its just sat there, in the paper cone.. the water is filtering through the coffee, to come out... err coffee...

What do you put in a taster, speak NOW...too slow no its not toast its bread... comes out toast... well... in my kitchen often comes back out bread.. so I put it back in, and what then comes out is carbonised tiles... but fuck it.... I'll have cornflakes... back to the coffee?

Is it percolated, is it filtered? Is it Expresso, Americano, late, Cupachino, Mocca, Java, Brazilian Kenyan, fare trade or organic?

FUCK IT I'LL HAVE A CUP OF TEA!

So, I dont know... life is full of mysteries and conundrums; perhaps if you ask on the .Gov website under the freedom of information act, they'll give you a job to answer them and a grant to do the research.. in which case Fuck the tea, rounds on you.... mines a Pint... of Captain Morgan's & Coke... and yes you can probably write that off as research against expenses, so get in some dry roast peanuts too while your at the bar!

All this logs is making my strained... Oh No! Now there you go. We filter coffee, but strain tea.. perhaps we 'strain' through traffic? I've just got back from straining through traffic out of town, and am certainly now strained having done so, and been forced to think about whether or not it s the correct word for what I just did!

There you go, we ought to launch a campaign to get the work term 'straining' applied to the process of riding a motorcycle through dense slow moving city traffic, and a grant to award strained motorcyclists pints of Rum.
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